Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8476, Dennis Fielder, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va
A: Fielder Dennis
S. 8476
CONTENTS
enrolled

12.157
Virginia
Dennis Hilder
of Grayson in the State of Va:
who was a Mr. — in the — commanded by Captain — of the Regt commanded by Col. Walker in the Va line for 9 months —
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 30. Dollars — Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st day of April 1831 by M c Dermott Secy of War M c Camant Richmond Va
Arrears to the 4th of March 1831 — 60. Semi-ann. allowance ending Sept — 15.
$ 75.-
d. May 3. 1834
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Nathan Rice — Clerk Book E Vol. 6 Page 8.
Dead. 03 order to pay. See letters to P. Cag & R. B. Dudley Aug. 31. 1836 —
1893 July 8 Rev D W Fiddler give rate of his pension & not entitled to Land Prior

16, 875-
Dennis Thaler
Alms as per will 9 mo from 1777 at 5% $3000
Sam M Coamant Richmond va

16,875
BRIEF in the case of  Dennis Fielder of  Wayden  in the State of  va (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? about  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 76  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     76 or 77 - May 1817 3 private Gen. Capt. Clark - Col. Walker   March of same year York 3 " do Col. Holcomb or Holcomb   Concordia, Louisiana 3 " Capt. Hollan or Holland   same year  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none mentioned  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Prince Edward Co. Va.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Tradition  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Right 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
H. C. Easton Examining Clerk. 21 Feb 1833

Dennis Hickey
1875 v
Original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Dennis Hickey for a Pleas.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal at said Court, at Office, the 15 th day of October 1882.
M. Schumann
Samuel H. Sammons Richmond pa

State of Virginia
County of Grayson
On this 24 th day of September 1832 personally appeared in Open Court before the justices of the Court of Grayson County now sitting Dennis Fielder a Resident of Grayson County, in the State of Virginia, aged twenty six years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
This applicant says that he entered the service of the United States as a for three months Volunteer, under the Command of Capt. John Clark in the month of May 1776 or 77, as well as he now recollects, and marched to Pittsburgh in Virginia where he remained until his term of service expired. Col. George Walker had the Command of the troops at Pittsburgh while this declarant was there, this declarant again volunteered his services for 3 months, under the Command of Capt. John Clark, and marched to Prince Edward Court-house in the month of March of the same year of Lord Cornwallis's surrender, at Yorktown, in Virginia, where this declarant remained with others and until his term of service again expired. The troops at Prince Edward Court-house at that time was Commanded by Col. John Holcomb, or Holcome, & this declarant with others was there , guarding the military stores at Prince Edward Court-house Virginia. This declarant volunteered his service a third time for 3 months and marched from Prince Edward Court-house in the same year last

aforesaid, under the command of Capt. Richard Holland, or Haleand, with with a number of British prisoners whom, it was ordered, should be taken to Winchester, but but before further orders were given to march the said prisoners to the barracks in Albemarle County, where where they were taken and delivered to Col. Lindsey, and shortly afterwards having served, in the whole, 9 months, this declarant was discharged & went home. This declarant resided in the County of Prince Edward, in Virginia, at the different times he volunteered, and continued to live in that County, until the year 1789, when he removed to Grayson County, then Montgomery County, where he has resided ever since. This declarant was born in Goochland County, Virginia, 21 st day of April in the year 1756, but has now no record of his age, he saw Barn Shabam while he was and his force, past Prince Edward Court-house while he was stationed there - the Barn was then marching towards the South. This declarant never received any discharge from the Service, but  one night  his Captain his Captain told him he would give him one, if he would come for it, but this declarant never did apply for it because he supposed it would not be long before he would again be called into Service, always holding himself ready to march whenever it was deemed necessary he should do so. This declarant is known to John Bird, John Martin & Stephen Bourne in his present neighbourhood, who will testify as to his character for veracity, and as to his Service in the Revolutionary War.

He is also known to John Fielden, a contemporary survivor, who knows that he did serve as is here in  the above and set forth. This declarant hereby Relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. Sworn to, and subscribed, the day & year aforesaid Dennis his Freedon. mark
We, Joshua Montain, residing in the County of Grayson, and John Bird, residing in the same County, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Dennis Freedon, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 76 years of age; that he is reported and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in  the above declaration Sworn, and subscribed, the day & year aforesaid.
Joshua Montain John Bird

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certify, that it appears to them that John Martin, and John Byrd, who had signed the preceding Certificate, are residents in the County of Grayson, and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
William Dickenson, Clerk of the Court of Grayson County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Dennis Fielder for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court, at Office, this 15 th day of October 1832.
W. Dickenson

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19____
17.8476  In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Dennis Fielder a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. aw
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     May 1776 " 1777 3 mos. John Clark George Walker Va.   Feb. 1781 3 mos. John Clark John Holcombe   1781 3 mos. Richard Holland ✓        
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Prince Edward Co. Va.
Date of application for pension, Sept. 24, 1932 His el. was al.
Residence at date of application, Grayson Co. Virginia
Age at date of application, born Apr. 21, 1756 in Goochland Co. Va.
Remarks: died May 3, 1834
No data as to family.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

to der Mrs.
Rev. War
8476
INVALID:
1893, May 29. Hist Rev. Boyd W. Field Hannibal 1915 - Lang & Hist. to Mrs. {F.S. J.P. Whitman.
File No. 8476
Dennis Fielder
Rev. War.
Act: June 14th 32
Index: —Vol. 1st , Page 125
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Richmond 25 th August 1835
Dr Edwards Esq
Sir
The enclosed petition and certificate having been presented to the agent for paying pensions in this city payment was refused as two years had expired since the death of the Pensioner. You will please examine and report.
Yours Respectfully Russell B Dudley Navy

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Dennis Thelder which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? _____ IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? Yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?  No
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?  No
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?  No  he says it can be had
XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?  Yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?  Yes 
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

PARK METHODIST CHURCH,
COR. 5TH AND CENTER STS.,
B. W. FIELDER, PASTOR.
STUDY, 502 Center Street.
RESIDENCE, 305 North Sixth St.
Hannibal, Mo.,
May 4, 1893
Pension Commissioner
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:
I write
to ask a favor of you. I have heard that my grand father Dennis Fielder was a soldier in the war of the Revolution. He was born in 1756 and died in Grayson county Virginia in 1834. His widow Mrs. Delia Fielder died in 1845. I have heard father say that mother drew a pen-

PARK METHODIST CHURCH,
COR. 5TH AND CENTER STS.,
B. W. FIELDER, PASTOR.
STUDY, 502 Center Street.
RESIDENCE, 305 North Sixth St.
2
Hannibal, Mo.,
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Scion for his father services in the war for Independence. You would likely find the records be- tween the dates 1834 and 1845 -
Will you be so kind as to answer if you have data to corroborate these facts.
Yours Truly Boyd W. Fielder

PARK METHODIST CHURCH,
COR. 5TH AND CENTER STS.,
B. W. FIELDER, PASTOR.
STUDY, 502 Center Street. RESIDENCE, 305 North Sixth St.
Hannibal, Mo., June 19, 1893
William Lochren Esq.:
Dear Sir,
Yours of 29th ulto giving the military history of my grandfather has been received. I am un- der many obligations to you for your kindness and prompt- ness.
I beg your in- dulgence while I en- quire a little further. What pension did my grandfather re- ceive and how long." Was there a

Hannibal, Mo.,
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grant of land given him for his ser- vices, and if so, where?
Your letter to me is marked O.W. & N. Div. on left corner, I. N. P. on the right. Pension allowed in 1832. Dennis Fielder.
Again thanking you
I am
Gr. Off. Sot. B. W. Fielder.

✓ M. Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir: Will you kindly give me information from the records of your office, of concerning the following Wm. Vaughan Dennis Fielder.

both of Wythe County, Virginia, and both of Revolutionary Service? I should like to know if they or their widows were pensioned, if so when pensions were granted and when

discontinued.
Any information will be greatly appreciated.
Very Truly,
Mrs. S. P. Rhitman
Spring Valley Ga